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This month’s cover star Jamie Le Hardy will no-doubt be enjoying the boost to his media profile as he prepares for the UK season and seeks sponsorship for the Scotland team he hopes to lead in more regular internationals. However, it’s not the first time he’s made a splash in print this year, after appearing as pictured last month in Jamaica’s leading weekend paper, The Sunday Observer. Charlie and Binkie Peacock, who first met at Pony Club polo, were married in Gloucestershire in mid-April
Two more polo-playing sweethearts tie the knot though the newlyweds were wrapped in marital Cowdray and Ash Farm-based players Niall bliss at the time of going to press and so were Donnelly and Claire Broom married in Niall’s uncontactable to tell us more! native Northern Ireland on 16 April, the same Charlie and Binkie Peacock (neé weekend as former Pony Club polo West), both 28, first met on the sweethearts Binkie West and Pony Club circuit when they Charlie Peacock tied the shared a kiss in their early knot just outside Tetbury, teens. They have been in Gloucestershire, near Binkie’s parents home. back together two-and“If we’re not ahead in the third The Donnellys, who a-half years. Binkie, who and fourth chukkas, we’ll lose” is the sister of Casper met in New Zealand at Audi captain Marc Ganzi with an and Crispin West and the a friend’s 21st some four honest and accurate pre-match HPA’s Sophie McPherson, years ago and now live assessment of his side’s chances reached the Gannon final near Hurtwood, married in in the US Open final Belfast and had a reception for playing with George Meyrick – see page 36-41 at Cowdray in 2005 and around 200 guests at the privatehas also played at Knepp Castle walled 18th-century Larchfield Estate and Beaufort. Her father, Peter West, now in County Down. commentates regularly at Beaufort, after he and Polo Times understands they have also recently set up their own yard for polo livery, wife Stephanie moved from Sussex nearly 10 years ago, where Binkie and her polo-playing siblings were all brought up.
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Meanwhile, at Lynt Polo Club, minus-onegoaler Diana Massey is marrying fiancée Richard Wilkinson in July and club members Abi and Stuart Latham are celebrating the birth of their first child, Lyra Innes Phoebe, on 15 April. Also expecting are Daniel and Kirsty Otamendi, who will welcome their first baby in early June. The couple are both based at Ascot Park, where Argentine Daniel is one of the club’s four-goal professionals. Elsewhere at the club, IWPA’s Mia Randall-Coath’s 20-year old son Will has had one of his films selected for the Cannes Film Festival which will take place next month.
It was all part of publicity for the final of the Jamaica Open on Sunday 10 April, which Le Hardy went on to win and gain all the plaudits as the tournament’s MVP He also took part in the Barbados Open, though without the same success. In that, fellow Brits Tom Morley, Jamie Dickson and George Gemmell took the spoils. ◗ Read all the action from Barbados on pages 42 and 90, and see more from Jamaica on pages 16, 48 and 86 Akuma Polo Clothing director Thomas Aldersley and his fiancée Polly Barber are expecting their first child, a baby boy, due in mid-August. They hope to marry next year and are already choosing names for their imminent new arrival, with the slightly unusual Harley the apparent front-runner! Finally, in case you’ve been living under a rock, one-goal polo player Prince William married his long-term girlfriend Catherine Middleton at the end of last month and, in honour of the national celebration, we’ve suggested his nearest polo look-a-like (left). It also seems Wills and Ollie may well share style advice as well! www.polotimes.co.uk
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